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SUMMARY:Marc Anthony Richardson and Carolina de Robertis
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY\, AUGUST 25 AT 6PM PT WHEN MARC ANTHONY RICHARDSON JOINS US TO DISCUSS HIS NOVEL\, MESSIAHS\, WITH CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS AT 9TH AVE! \nMasks Required While In-Store\nYou can join this event virtually by registering at the link below. \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cqwbFFuBQIS0qvGhukkbow \nPraise for Messiahs\n“Messiahs is a fever dream of storytelling. It explores racism and interracial conflict\, the deadly prison industrial complex\, climate emergency\, social death\, and more in prose that unfurls like waves of sound. Bleak\, though not without hope\, challenging\, though with numerous rewards along the way\, innovative from start to finish\, Messiahs is a marvel.”\n—John Keene\, MacArthur Fellow and author of Annotations and Counternarratives \n“In Messiahs\, Marc Anthony Richardson gives us an innovative\, intelligent\, and insightful take on several American obsessions\, including punishment\, incarceration\, and the death penalty. As much as this layered narrative presents a warning about things to come\, it also offers a profound examination of rebirth\, redemption\, second-acts. All in all an unnerving\, uncanny\, and challenging read on many levels\, but well worth the effort.”\n—Jeffery Renard Allen\, Guggenheim Fellow and author of Rails Under My Back and Song of the Shank \nAbout Messiahs\nA fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice. \nMessiahs centers on two nameless lovers\, a woman of east Asian descent and a former state prisoner\, a black man who volunteered incarceration on behalf of his falsely convicted nephew\, yet was “exonerated” after more than two years on death row. In this dystopian America\, one can assume a relative’s capital sentence as an act of holy reform-“the proxy initiative\,” patterned after the Passion. The lovers begin their affair by exchanging letters\, and after his release\, they withdraw to a remote cabin during a torrential winter\, haunted by their respective past tragedies. Savagely ostracized by her family for years\, the woman is asked by her mother to take the proxy initiative for her brother-creating a conflict she cannot bear to share with her lover. Comprised of ten poetic paragraphs\, Messiahs‘ rigorous style and sustained intensity equals agony and ecstasy.\nAbout Marc Anthony Richardson\nMarc Anthony Richardson is author of Year of the Rat\, winner of an American Book Award\, and is the recipient of a Creative Capital Award\, a PEN America grant\, and a Hurston/Wright fellowship. He teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marc-anthony-richardson-and-carolina-de-robertis/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:James Rebanks and Nick Offerman
DESCRIPTION:On his acclaimed new book\, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, August 6\, 2021 – 12:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAcclaimed author James Rebanks joins us from the UK to discuss his new book\, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey (Custom House). James will be joined in conversation by actor and author Nick Offerman. \n“James Rebanks’s story of his family’s farm is just about perfect.  It belongs with the finest writing of its kind.” — Wendell Berry \n“One of the most important books of our time. Anyone who cares about our land – indeed\, anyone who buys food – should read this book. Told with humility and grace\, this story of farming over three generations – where we went wrong and how we can change our ways – is at the forefront of a revolution. It will be our land’s salvation.” — Isabella Tree\, author of Wilding \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Pastoral Song\nThe Acclaimed International Bestseller * Named “Nature Book of the Year” by the Sunday Times (London) * Shortlisted for the the Orwell Prize and the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize \nAs a boy\, James Rebanks’s grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient agricultural landscape: a patchwork of crops and meadows\, of pastures grazed with livestock\, and hedgerows teeming with wildlife. And yet\, by the time James inherited the farm\, it was barely recognizable. The men and women had vanished from the fields; the old stone barns had crumbled; the skies had emptied of birds and their wind-blown song. \nHailed as “a brilliant\, beautiful book” by the Sunday Times (London)\, Pastoral Song (published in the United Kingdom under the title English Pastoral) is the story of an inheritance: one that affects us all. It tells of how rural landscapes around the world were brought close to collapse\, and the age-old rhythms of work\, weather\, community and wild things were lost. And yet this elegy from the northern fells is also a song of hope: of how\, guided by the past\, one farmer began to salvage a tiny corner of England that was now his\, doing his best to restore the life that had vanished and to leave a legacy for the future. \nThis is a book about what it means to have love and pride in a place\, and how\, against all the odds\, it may still be possible to build a new pastoral: not a utopia\, but somewhere decent for us all. \nAbout James Rebanks\nJames Rebanks runs a family-owned farm in the Lake District in northern England. A graduate of Oxford University\, James works as an expert advisor to UNESCO on sustainable tourism. He uses his popular Twitter feed – @herdyshepherd1 – to share updates on the shepherding year. He is the author of The Shepherd’s Life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-rebanks-and-nick-offerman/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:On the Practice of Presence for Healing Personal and Collective Grief
DESCRIPTION:In unsettling and uncertain times\, the individual and collective heartbreak that lives in both our bodies and our communities can feel insurmountable. Many of us have been conditioned by the dominant culture to not name\, focus on\, or wade through the difficulties in our lives. But in order to heal\, we must make space for grief\, prioritizing our wholeness\, humanity\, and inherent divinity. \nSocial justice activist\, social worker\, and yoga teacher Michelle Cassandra Johnson offers to those who feel brokenhearted\, helpless\, confused\, powerless\, and desperate the tools they need to be present and openhearted with their grief. In her latest book\, Finding Refuge\, Michelle uses personal narrative\, meditation\, and journaling practices to explore being present with our hearts\, empowering us to see that we each have a role to play in taking intentional action to build momentum toward a shifting what is unsettled and unjust in the world. Through her work and writing\, Michelle invites us to pick up the shattered parts of ourselves and remember our strength\, wholeness\, and sacredness through the practice of presence and attending to our grief. \nJoin program innovation leader in mindfulness\, trauma\, and racial healing Jenee Johnson in a conversation with Michelle about her latest book\, her life and her work\, and learn how to process your own grief\, as well as family\, community\, and global grief. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/johnson-cassandra-michelle-august-4-2021 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
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LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Brian Evenson in conversation with Sarah Rose Etter
DESCRIPTION:eading from \nThe Glassy\, Burning Floor of Hell \npublished by Coffee House Press \n—– \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———– \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nA sentient\, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurking behind a shimmering wall; brutal barrow men—of all the terrors that populate The Glassy\, Burning Floor of Hell\, perhaps the most alarming are the beings who decimated the habitable Earth: humans. In this new short story collection\, Brian Evenson envisions a chilling future beyond the Anthropocene that forces excruciating decisions about survival and self-sacrifice in the face of toxic air and a natural world torn between revenge and regeneration. Combining psychological and ecological horror\, each tale thrums with Evenson’s award-winning literary craftsmanship\, dark humor\, and thrilling suspense. \nBrian Evenson is the author of over a dozen works of fiction. He has received three O. Henry Prizes for his fiction. His most recent book\, Song for the Unraveling of the World\, won a Shirley Jackson Award and was a finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction\, Fantasy\, and Speculative Fiction and the Balcones Fiction Prize. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts. \nSarah Rose Etter is the author of Tongue Party\, and The Book of X\, her first novel\, which is the winner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award for novel. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Guernica\, BOMB\, Gulf Coast\, The Cut\, VICE\, and more. She has been awarded residences at the Jack Kerouac House\, the Disquiet International program in Portugal\, and the Gullkistan Writing Residency in Iceland. \nPraise for The Glassy\, Burning Floor of Hell \n“Masterful and foreboding\, each story in The Glassy\, Burning Floor of Hell is a tightly wound mystery which unravels just enough to show us the dark depths of the human condition. From a curator intent on destroying all evidence of human life to a house intent on consuming its inhabitants\, don’t be surprised if you catch yourself holding your breath as you enter these fantastic worlds. Brian Evenson is one of our most brilliant minds\, and he has outdone himself again.” —Sarah Rose Etter \n“Literary horror at its most existential\, visceral\, and wonderful. These strange stories build upon each other to create an uncanny shadow universe rich\, vivid and shimmering with every kind of terror. Another brilliant collection.” —Mona Awad \n“In this rich offering\, a true collection of worlds\, Evenson gives us visions of the future that are avenues to the past; glimpses of the strange where we find what’s deeply familiar; in the living\, the dead; and in these fantastic stories\, the clearest\, starkest portrait of our depraved reality. Evenson at his greatest—visceral\, relentless\, alive.” —Samantha Hunt \n“Like with Borges or Kafka\, every one of Brian Evenson’s stories are a whole world distilled down to a few pages\, and rendered in a pointillism that feels not just abstract\, but cosmic\, yet is gritty all the same\, and leaves a distinct\, bloody residue in your mind\, in your heart. And then you can no longer look at the world the way you used to.” —Stephen Graham Jones
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brian-evenson-in-conversation-with-sarah-rose-etter/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ashley Nelson Levy and Ismail Muhammad
DESCRIPTION:Celebrates her debut novel\, Immediate Family\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, August 4\, 2021 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAshley Nelson Levy joins us to celebrate the publication of her stunning debut novel\, Immediate Family (FSG). Ashley will be joined in conversation by writer and critic Ismail Muhammad. \n“Composed with emotional candor and intellectual clarity\, Immediate Family is about the improbable relentlessness of love. It’s a testament to the reality that no family\, regardless of origin or composition\, is ever fully formed: most days the best we can do is keep each other from coming undone. It’s a book that refuses tidy conclusions\, and yet by the time I turned the last page\, this book that had undone me had also left me magnificently whole.” —Anthony Marra\, author of The Tsar of Love and Techno \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Immediate Family\nIt is the day of her brother’s wedding and our narrator is still struggling with her toast. Despite a recent fracture between them\, her brother\, Danny\, has asked her to give a speech and she doesn’t know where to begin\, how to put words to their kind of love. She was nine years old when she traveled with her parents to Thailand to meet her brother\, six years her junior. They grew up together like any other siblings\, and shared bucolic childhood in Northern California. Yet when she holds their story up to the light\, it refracts in ways she doesn’t expect. \nWhat follows is a heartfelt letter addressed to Danny and an attempt at a full accounting of their years growing up\, invoking everything from the classic Victorian adoption plot to childless women in literature to documents from Danny’s case file. It’s also a confession of sorts to the parts of her life that she has kept from him\, including her own struggle with infertility. And as the hours until the wedding wane\, she uncovers the words that can’t and won’t be said aloud. \nIn Immediate Family\, a tender and fierce debut novel\, Ashley Nelson Levy explores the enduring bond between two siblings and the complexities of motherhood\, infertility\, race\, and the many definitions of family. \nAbout Ashley Nelson Levy\nAshley Nelson Levy received her MFA from Columbia University\, where she was awarded the Clein-Lemann Esperanza Fellowship. Her work has been a notable mention in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and she’s the recipient of the Bambi Holmes Award for Emerging Writers. In 2015\, she cofounded Transit Books\, an independent publishing house with a focus on international literature. Immediate Family is her first book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ashley-nelson-levy-and-ismail-muhammad/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ashley Nelson Levy Celebrates her debut novel\, Immediate Family
DESCRIPTION:Ashley Nelson Levy joins us to celebrate the publication of her stunning debut novel\, Immediate Family (FSG). \n“Composed with emotional candor and intellectual clarity\, Immediate Family is about the improbable relentlessness of love. It’s a testament to the reality that no family\, regardless of origin or composition\, is ever fully formed: most days the best we can do is keep each other from coming undone. It’s a book that refuses tidy conclusions\, and yet by the time I turned the last page\, this book that had undone me had also left me magnificently whole.” —Anthony Marra\, author of The Tsar of Love and Techno \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Immediate Family\nIt is the day of her brother’s wedding and our narrator is still struggling with her toast. Despite a recent fracture between them\, her brother\, Danny\, has asked her to give a speech and she doesn’t know where to begin\, how to put words to their kind of love. She was nine years old when she traveled with her parents to Thailand to meet her brother\, six years her junior. They grew up together like any other siblings\, and shared bucolic childhood in Northern California. Yet when she holds their story up to the light\, it refracts in ways she doesn’t expect. \nWhat follows is a heartfelt letter addressed to Danny and an attempt at a full accounting of their years growing up\, invoking everything from the classic Victorian adoption plot to childless women in literature to documents from Danny’s case file. It’s also a confession of sorts to the parts of her life that she has kept from him\, including her own struggle with infertility. And as the hours until the wedding wane\, she uncovers the words that can’t and won’t be said aloud. \nIn Immediate Family\, a tender and fierce debut novel\, Ashley Nelson Levy explores the enduring bond between two siblings and the complexities of motherhood\, infertility\, race\, and the many definitions of family. \nAbout Ashley Nelson Levy\nAshley Nelson Levy received her MFA from Columbia University\, where she was awarded the Clein-Lemann Esperanza Fellowship. Her work has been a notable mention in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and she’s the recipient of the Bambi Holmes Award for Emerging Writers. In 2015\, she cofounded Transit Books\, an independent publishing house with a focus on international literature. Immediate Family is her first book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ashley-nelson-levy-celebrates-her-debut-novel-immediate-family/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poetry with Cruwys via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:August 5 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Recurring Event (See all)\n\n\n\n\nFor poets and poetry lovers alike \nJoin with OHCA resident poet Cruwys Brown and 2010-2012 Poet Laureate of Marin County\, CB Follett\, for an afternoon of poetry exploration\, reading\, and discussion. \nSubmit a short (one page max) poem to share and discuss in advance to office@ohanloncenter.org. This can be a poem you love\, or want to explore. One you have written or not. \nEight people max. \nSince space is limited please contact Erma Murphy\, erma@ohanoncenter.org to register. \n$10\, $8 OHCA members \nShort bio of Cruwys Brown\nDick Brown is a long-time explorer of poetry. The first poetry group he attended was in 1965 in Brooklyn Heights\, NY\, around the corner from where Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass. He has been involved in poetry workshops over the past several years. He founded the Marin Poet Laureate Program with the Marin County Free Library System.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-with-cruwys-via-zoom/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Kaveh Akbar
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, August 5 at 6pm PT when Kaveh Akbar reads from his latest poetry collection\, Pilgrim Bell\, in-person at 9th Ave! MASKS REQUIRED  \nYou can watch the livestream of this event online by registering at the link below: \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_LkAVIbOeRpqn-rACAEZ62g \nPraise for Pilgrim Bell \n“Kaveh Akbar exquisitely and tenaciously braids astonishment and atonement into a singular lyric voice . . . intensely inventive and original.” —Frank Bidart \n“[Akbar’s] poems have as much audacity as humility\, a rare mix of openness in a time of flinching anxiety.” —francine j. harris \n“Akbar’s poems offer readers\, religious or not\, a way to cultivate faith in times of deepest fear.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) \nAbout Pilgrim Bell \nKaveh Akbar’s exquisite\, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf \nWith formal virtuosity and ruthless precision\, Kaveh Akbar’s second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey of disavowal\, fiercely attendant to the presence of divinity where artifacts of self and belonging have been shed. How does one recover from addiction without destroying the self-as-addict? And if living justly in a nation that would see them erased is\, too\, a kind of self-destruction\, what does one do with the body’s question\, “what now shall I repair?” Here\, Akbar responds with prayer as an act of devotion to dissonance—the infinite void of a loved one’s absence\, the indulgence of austerity\, making a life as a Muslim in an Islamophobic nation—teasing the sacred out of silence and stillness. \nRichly crafted and generous\, Pilgrim Bell’s linguistic rigor is tuned to the register of this moment and any moment. As the swinging soul crashes into its limits\, against the atrocities of the American empire\, and through a profoundly human capacity for cruelty and grace\, these brilliant poems dare to exist in the empty space where song lives—resonant\, revelatory\, and holy. \nAbout Kaveh Akbar \nKaveh Akbar is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf and has received honors such as a Levis Reading Prize and multiple Pushcart Prizes. Born in Tehran\, Iran\, he teaches at Purdue University and in low-residency programs at Warren Wilson and Randolph Colleges.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-kaveh-akbar/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ladyparts — author Deborah Copaken in conversation with Ayelet Waldman
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, August 5\, 2021 at 6 PM PDT for a discussion of LADYPARTS with author Deborah Copaken in conversation with Ayelet Waldman (author of A REALLY GOOD DAY: HOW MICRODOSING MADE A MEGA DIFFERENCE IN MY MOOD\, MY MARRIAGE\, AND MY LIFE). \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85308181680 and on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/ggpbooks/live/. \nOrder your copy of LADYPARTS\, at http://bit.ly/ggpLadyparts\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at http://bit.ly/LadypartsAB. Order your copy of A REALLY GOOD DAY in print from GGP at http://bit.ly/ggpReallyGoodDay or in #audiobook from Libro.fm at http://bit.ly/ReallyGoodDayAB. \nDescription\n\nA frank\, witty\, and dazzlingly written memoir of one woman trying to keep it together while her body falls apart–from the “brilliant mind” (Michaela Coel\, creator of I May Destroy You) behind Shutterbabe \n  \n“The most laugh-out-loud story of resilience you’ll ever read and an essential road map for the importance of narrative as a tool of healing.”–Lori Gottlieb\, bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone \n  \nI’m crawling around on the bathroom floor\, picking up pieces of myself. These pieces are not a metaphor. They are actual pieces. \nTwenty years after her iconic memoir Shutterbabe\, Deborah Copaken is at her darkly comedic nadir: battered\, broke\, divorcing\, dissected\, and dying–literally–on sexism’s battlefield as she scoops up what she believes to be her internal organs into a glass container before heading off to the hospital . . . in an UberPool. \nLadyparts is her irreverent inventory of both the female body and the body politic of womanhood in America\, the story of one woman brought to her knees by the one-two-twelve punch of divorce\, solo motherhood\, healthcare Frogger\, unaffordable childcare\, shady landlords\, her father’s death\, college tuitions\, sexual harassment\, corporate indifference\, ageism\, sexism\, and plain old bad luck. Plus seven serious illnesses\, one atop the other\, which provide the book’s narrative skeleton: vagina\, uterus\, breast\, heart\, cervix\, brain\, and lungs. She bounces back from each bum body part\, finds workarounds for every setback–she transforms her home into a commune to pay rent; sells her soul for health insurance; turns FBI informant when her sexual harasser is nominated to the White House–but in her slippery struggle to survive a steep plunge off the middle-class ladder\, she is suddenly awoken to what it means to have no safety net. \nSide-splittingly funny one minute\, a freak horror show the next\, quintessentially American\, Ladyparts is an era-defining memoir for our time. \nAbout the Panelists\n\nDeborah Copaken is the bestselling author of Shutterbabe\, The Red Book\, and Between Here and April. An Emmy Award-winning news producer and award-winning photojournalist\, she is also a columnist at The Atlantic and a screenwriter for the Netflix show Emily in Paris. Her New York Times Modern Love column\, “When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist\,” was adapted for this TV series\, and she has performed on the New York City stage multiple times. Her essays have also appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Observer\, Financial Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, and The Nation. She lives in Brooklyn. \nAyelet Waldman is the author of the novels Love and Treasure\, Red Hook Road\, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits\, and Daughter’s Keeper\, as well as of the essay collection Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes\, Minor Calamities\, and Occasional Moments of Grace\, and the Mommy-Track Mystery series. She was a federal public defender and taught at Loyola Law School and the UC Berkeley School of Law\, where she developed and taught courses on the legal implications of the war on drugs. She lives in Berkeley\, California\, with her husband\, Michael Chabon\, and their four children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ladyparts-author-deborah-copaken-in-conversation-with-ayelet-waldman/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210805T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210805T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T120125
CREATED:20210605T125819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210605T125819Z
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SUMMARY:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Jerry Spinelli\, Dead Wednesday
DESCRIPTION:Fans of Stargirl and Maniac Magee rejoice! Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli delivers a brilliant new novel about being bold\, and taking charge of your life. \nTickets for this special virtual event will go on sale soon. \nWorm Tarnauer has spent most of eighth grade living down to his nickname. He prefers to be out of sight\, underground. He walked the world unseen. He’s happy to let his best friend\, Eddie\, lead the way and rule the day. \nAnd this day—Dead Wednesday—is going to be awesome. The school thinks assigning each eighth grader the name of a teenager who died in the past year and having them don black shirts and become “invisible” will make them contemplate their own mortality. Yeah\, sure. The kids know that being invisible to teachers really means you can get away with anything. It’s a day to go wild! \nBut Worm didn’t count on Becca Finch (17\, car crash). Letting this girl into his head is about to change everything. \nJerry Spinelli tells the story of the unexpected\, heartbreaking\, hilarious\, truly epic day when Worm Tarnauer discovers his own life. \nJERRY SPINELLI is the author of many beloved novels for young readers\, including Stargirl; Love\, Stargirl; Milkweed; The Warden’s Daughter; Crash; Wringer; and Maniac Magee\, winner of the Newbery Medal; along with Knots in My Yo-Yo String\, the autobiography of his childhood. A graduate of Gettysburg College\, he lives in Pennsylvania with his wife\, poet and author Eileen Spinelli.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ticketed-virtual-event-jerry-spinelli-dead-wednesday/
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210805T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210805T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T120125
CREATED:20210801T011411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210801T011411Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Monkey Around by Jadie Jang
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to host the book launch for Monkey Around! The debut novel from Claire Light (writing as Jadie Jang)\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nMonkey Around is an action-packed urban fantasy delivering a bold new take on the Monkey King in San Francisco – complete with murder and mayhem! \nClaire Light is such an important part of KSW’s history and we’re immensely proud to help her celebrate this debut novel (written under the pen name\, Jadie Jang). Join us for a live reading and discussion with Claire and some of her special guests. \nWe’ll be having a limited live in-person audience and a simulcast on Zoom. Books will be available at the event thanks to Eastwind Books. If you’re joining us online\, we encourage you to order the book directly from their site: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/ \nAbout Monkey Around \nBarista\, activist\, and were-monkey Maya McQueen was well on her way to figuring herself out. Well\, part of the way. 25% of the way. If you squint. But now the Bay Area is being shaken up. Occupy Wall Street has come home to roost; and on the supernatural side there’s disappearances\, shapeshifter murders\, and the city’s spirit trying to find its guardian. Maya doesn’t have a lot of time before chaos turns up at her door\, and she needs to solve all of her problems. Well\, most of them. The urgent ones\, anyhow. But who says the solutions have to be neat? Because Monkey is always out for mischief. \nAbout the Author \nClaire Light (writing as Jadie Jang) is almost as organizy as her characters. She started a magazine (Hyphen) and an arts festival (APAture) with a cast of Asian Pacific Americans even more magical\, if less supernatural\, than the ones she writes about. She also got an MFA\, went to Clarion West\, and compromised between the two by publishing a collection of “literary” sci-fi short stories (Slightly Behind and to the Left) that maybe 100 people read. After wrangling arts and social justice nonprofits for 17 years\, her already autoimmune-disease-addled body threw a seven-year-long tantrum\, leading our then-house-bound heroine into an urban fantasy addiction. A few years\, and a dozen Euro-centric-mythology-dominated urban fantasy series later\, Claire sat up and said “I can do this!” and Jadie Jang\, the part of her brain that writes snarky-fun genre romps\, was born. She posts about monkeys every Monday under @seelight on Twitter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-monkey-around-by-jadie-jang/
LOCATION:Arc Studios & Gallery\, 1246 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, California\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210805T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210805T210000
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CREATED:20210805T041454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210805T041548Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Monkey Around by Jadie Jang
DESCRIPTION:(UPDATE: We are canceling the live in-person reading and will shift to online only\, please RSVP to receive the link to Zoom room or join us on Youtube or Facebook)\n\nWe are proud to host the book launch for Monkey Around! The debut novel from Claire Light (writing as Jadie Jang)\n\nMonkey Around is an action-packed urban fantasy delivering a bold new take on the Monkey King in San Francisco – complete with murder and mayhem!\n\nClaire Light is such an important part of KSW and we’re immensely proud to help her celebrate this debut novel (written under the pen name\, Jadie Jang). Join us for a live reading and discussion with Claire and some of her special guests.\n\nWe encourage you to order your copy of Monkey Around from Eastwind Books: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/\n\nAbout Monkey Around\nBarista\, activist\, and were-monkey Maya McQueen was well on her way to figuring herself out. Well\, part of the way. 25% of the way. If you squint. But now the Bay Area is being shaken up. Occupy Wall Street has come home to roost; and on the supernatural side there’s disappearances\, shapeshifter murders\, and the city’s spirit trying to find its guardian. Maya doesn’t have a lot of time before chaos turns up at her door\, and she needs to solve all of her problems. Well\, most of them. The urgent ones\, anyhow. But who says the solutions have to be neat? Because Monkey is always out for mischief.\n\nAbout the Author\nClaire Light (writing as Jadie Jang) is almost as organizy as her characters. She started a magazine (Hyphen) and an arts festival (APAture) with a cast of Asian Pacific Americans even more magical\, if less supernatural\, than the ones she writes about. She also got an MFA\, went to Clarion West\, and compromised between the two by publishing a collection of “literary” sci-fi short stories (Slightly Behind and to the Left) that maybe 100 people read. After wrangling arts and social justice nonprofits for 17 years\, her already autoimmune-disease-addled body threw a seven-year-long tantrum\, leading our then-house-bound heroine into an urban fantasy addiction. A few years\, and a dozen Euro-centric-mythology-dominated urban fantasy series later\, Claire sat up and said “I can do this!” and Jadie Jang\, the part of her brain that writes snarky-fun genre romps\, was born. She posts about monkeys every Monday under @seelight on Twitter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-monkey-around-by-jadie-jang-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210806T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210806T193000
DTSTAMP:20260408T120125
CREATED:20210801T013755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210801T013755Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press Virtual Open Mic #70
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-70/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210806T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210806T193000
DTSTAMP:20260408T120125
CREATED:20210731T183007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210731T183007Z
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SUMMARY:Words out Loud Spoken Word Series - Opposites Attract Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Words out Loud is a monthly first Friday spoken word series. Months alternate between featured readers and an Opposites Attract thematic open mic focusing on opposites. For August\, bring one poem each on the topics of high(s) and low(s)\, interpreted as you choose. Time allotted will depend on the number of participants but will likely be 2-3 minutes each.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-out-loud-spoken-word-series-opposites-attract-open-mic-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Philip Wexler":MAILTO:eot3wexler@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210807T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210807T114500
DTSTAMP:20260408T120125
CREATED:20210801T014431Z
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SUMMARY:Kat Zhang
DESCRIPTION:Register \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeet Kat Zhang\, children’s book author of Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao in an interactive food-themed read-aloud certain to delight. Learn how the mixture of culture and perseverance through cooking and food\, results in perfection through practice. For kids and their families. \nWatch this on YouTube. \nAbout Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao: Amy loves to make bao with her family. But it takes skill to make the bao taste and look delicious. And her bao keep coming out all wrong. Then she has an idea that may give her a second chance. Will Amy ever make the perfect bao? \nKat Zhang has been an avid reader for as long as she can remember. After a childhood spent living in books\, she now builds stories for other people to visit. In addition to her Young Adult trilogy\, The Hybrid Chronicles\, she has also published two Middle Grade novels\, The Emperor’s Riddle and The Memory of Forgotten Things\, as well as two picture books\, Amy Wu & the Perfect Bao and Amy Wu & the Patchwork Dragon. The third in the series\, Amy Wu & the Warm Welcome\, will release in Summer 2022. \nConnect: Kat Zhang – Facebook | Kat Zhang – Instagram | Kat Zhang – Twitter \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2021 Summer Stride\n\n\nSummer Stride is the Library’s annual summer learning\, reading and exploration program for all ages and abilities. Read and learn with the Library all summer long. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nATTENDING PROGRAMS\nQuestions about the program or problems registering? Contact sfplcpp@sfpl.org. For accommodations (such as ASL interpretation or captioning)\, call (415) 557-4557 or contact accessibility@sfpl.org. Requesting at least 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPUBLIC NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER\nThis program uses a third-party website link. By clicking on the third-party website link\, you will leave SFPL’s website and enter a website not operated by SFPL. This service may collect personally identifying information about you\, such as name\, username\, email address\, and password. This service will treat the information it collects about you pursuant to its own privacy policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of each third-party website or service that you visit or use\, including those third parties with whom you interact through our Library services. For more information about these third-party links\, please see the section of SFPL’s Privacy Policy describing Links to Other Sites. \nThe views and opinions expressed in programs presented by groups unaffiliated with SFPL do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of SFPL or the City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kat-zhang/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="SFPL":MAILTO:anissa.malady@sfpl.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210807T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210807T130000
DTSTAMP:20260408T120125
CREATED:20210731T213608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210731T213619Z
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SUMMARY:Beautiful Black Books featuring Tolu Agbelusi!
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Center San José presents its new program Beautiful Black Books featuring Tolu Agbelusi reading and in conversation with host Tshaka Campbell!\nTolu Agbelusi is the author of Locating Strongwoman (Jacaranda Books 2020). A Nigerian British poet\, playwright and educator\, her work has been published nationally and internationally. She was shortlisted for the 2018 White Review Poetry Prize and has performed widely including at Cheltenham Lit Festival\, Stanza International Poetry Festival\, Lagos International Poetry Festival & Poetry Africa. Founder of Home Sessions\, a poetry development program for Black poets\, she has created and led workshops at universities\, youth centres\, art organisations\, schools\, etc. For more information about her work\, visit www.ToluAgbelusi.com\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81359770764…\nMeeting ID: 813 5977 0764\nPasscode: 376494\nOne tap mobile\n+16699009128\,\,81359770764#\,\,\,\,*376494# US (San Jose)\n+12532158782\,\,81359770764#\,\,\,\,*376494# US (Tacoma)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 813 5977 0764\nPasscode: 376494\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbfzQeT6F0\nThis will be a recurring program featuring Black writers in conversation followed by a Q&A for an audience that will also include young writers of Santa Clara County and surrounding communities. Subjects of discussion will include sources of inspiration that were formative\, particularly the work of writers and poets.\nPoetry Center San José promotes and supports the literary arts in San José. Over the past four decades\, PCSJ has brought hundreds of exceptional writers from around the country to read from their works and\, in many cases\, to conduct workshops for local writers. PCSJ is a nonprofit organization established in 1978. Its base of operations is in the charming turn-of-the-century Victorian home where the renown poet Edwin Markham once lived\, now located in San Jose History Park. Since the Fall of 2000\, PCSJ has sponsored a series of readings by local poets throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Poetry Center San José is a member supported organization and is funded\, in part\, by grants from Applied Materials Foundation\, the City of San Jose’s Office of Cultural Affairs\, Poets & Writers\, Silicon Valley Community Foundation\, Silicon Valley Creates\, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara and the California Arts Council and generous giving from Anne & Mark’s Art Party.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beautiful-black-books-featuring-tolu-agbelusi/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210807T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210807T130000
DTSTAMP:20260408T120125
CREATED:20210303T053507Z
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SUMMARY:Marc Ribot in conversation with Elliott Sharp
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info.         \n\ncelebrating the launch of Mark Ribot’s new book \nUnstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist \npublished by Akashic Books \n\nIconoclastic guitar player Marc Ribot offers up essays and stories in this darkly funny and subversive debut collection. \n—– \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nThroughout his genre-defying career as one of the most innovative musicians of our time\, iconoclastic guitar player Marc Ribot has consistently defied expectation at every turn. Here\, in his first collection of writing\, we see that same uncompromising sensibility at work as he playfully interrogates our assumptions about music\, life\, and death. Through essays\, short stories\, and the occasional unfilmable film “mistreatment” that showcase the sheer range of his voice\, Unstrung captures an artist whose versatility on the page rivals his dexterity onstage. \nIn the first section of the book\, “Lies and Distortion\,” Ribot turns his attention to his instrument—”my relation to the guitar is one of struggle; I’m constantly forcing it to be something else”—and reflects on his influences (and friends) like Robert Quine (The Voidoids) and producer Hal Willner (Saturday Night Live)\, while delivering an impassioned plea on behalf of artists’ rights. Elsewhere\, we glimpse fragments of Ribot’s life as a traveling musician—he captures both the monotony of touring as well as small moments of beauty and despair on the road. In the heart of the collection\, “Sorry\, We’re Experiencing Technical Difficulties\,” Ribot offers wickedly humorous short stories that synthesize the best elements of the Russian absurdist tradition with the imaginative heft of George Saunders. Taken together\, these stories and essays cement Ribot’s position as one of the most dynamic and creative voices of our time. \nListen to an interview with Marc Ribot at The Quarantine Tapes (Literary Hub). \nMARC RIBOT has released twenty-five albums under his own name over a forty-year career\, exploring everything from the pioneering jazz of Albert Ayler to the Cuban son of Arsenio Rodríguez. Rolling Stone points out that “Ribot helped Tom Waits refine a new\, weird Americana on 1985’s Rain Dogs\, and since then he’s become the go-to guitar guy for all kinds of roots-music adventurers: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss\, Elvis Costello\, John Mellencamp.” Additional recording credits include Neko Case\, Diana Krall\, Elton John/Leon Russell’s The Union\, Solomon Burke\, John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards\, Marianne Faithfull\, Joe Henry\, Allen Toussaint\, Medeski\, Martin & Wood\, Caetano Veloso\, Allen Ginsberg\, Madeleine Peyroux\, Norah Jones\, the Black Keys\, and many others. Ribot works regularly with GRAMMY Award–winning producer T Bone Burnett and New York composer John Zorn. He has also composed and performed on numerous film scores such as Walk the Line\, The Kids Are All Right\, and The Departed. Unstrung is his latest work. \nELLIOTT SHARP is a contemporary classical composer\, multi-instrumentalist\, and performer. A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s\, Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from contemporary classical\, avant-garde\, free improvisation\, jazz\, experimental\, and orchestral music to noise\, no wave\, and electronic music. He is the author of the book IrRational Music published by Terra Nova Press. \nWhat is being said about UNSTRUNG \n“Unstrung has all the honesty\, original angles\, beauty\, and clangor found in Marc Ribot’s playing. His compassionate writing about Frantz Casseus gives a human face to his calls for artists’ rights. Like life itself\, this book is bloody\, funny\, and bloody funny.”\n—Elvis Costello\, musician \n“An insightful tour through the razor-sharp mind of one of the world’s most original and influential guitar masters. Ribot’s acerbic wit\, self-deprecating humor\, and profoundly vexing love-hate relationship with all things guitar make for a fun and stimulating read.”\n—John Zorn\, musician \n“Ribot writes with great care for words\, for sounds . . . A good writer\, like a good musician\, and Ribot is both\, needs to know what they’re composing to be able to understand it\, maybe even do it better the next time. His stories are moving and compassionate . . . revelatory\, honest\, and insightful . . .”\n—Lynne Tillman\, from the Introduction \n“In the beginning\, we may have thought Marc Ribot was a full-time Lower East Side tenants rights activist who moonlit as an ubiquitous downtown noise guitarist. Now we come to find out he’s a phenomenal essay writer who has the nerve to be one of our loudest and most beloved electric jazz improvisers . . . [Ribot] composes essays about music and life of sublime wit\, probity\, and severe self-reckoning . . .”\n—Greg Tate\, author of Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture \n“Don’t let the fact that I am calling Marc Ribot a thinking musician distract from the raw and the righteous aspects of his playing and of this book. You have to love something completely to want to look for a way out. Here is more proof of Marc’s love and understanding of music\, of those who make it and of all the imaginings that it might jar loose!”\n—Arto Lindsay\, musician \n“Marc Ribot\, the thinking person’s roving guitar wrangler\, always has something on his mind. It’s great to drift around in the woods and fields (and airports) behind the forehead of this man one’s known before mostly by the music he’s made. Take a ramble with Marc.”\nRichard Hell\, author of I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marc-ribot-in-conversation-with-elliott-sharp/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210807T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210807T170000
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Publication of Anthony Veasna So's Afterparties: A Tribute Panel
DESCRIPTION:Sat.\, August 7\, 2021 • 4:00pm PT • Live • Online \nPanelists include: Bryan Washington\, Monica Sok\, and Mira Jacob \nModerated by Alex Torres \nExcerpt of Afterparties read by Anthony Veasna So’s sister\, Samantha So Lamb \nBUY THE BOOK  WATCH HERE  JOIN OUR E-NEWSLETTER\nThis event will be broadcast live and does not require registration to attend. To view\, please click the “Watch Here” button at the time of the event\, or subscribe to our e-newsletter to receive a ten-minute reminder.\n  \nA vibrant story collection about Cambodian-American life—immersive and comic\, yet unsparing—that offers profound insight into the intimacy of queer and immigrant communities. \nSeamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted\, balancing acerbic humor with sharp emotional depth\, Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. As the children of refugees carve out radical new paths for themselves in California\, they shoulder the inherited weight of the Khmer Rouge genocide and grapple with the complexities of race\, sexuality\, friendship\, and family. \nThe stories in Afterparties\, “powered by So’s skill with the telling detail\, are like beams of wry\, affectionate light\, falling from different directions on a complicated\, struggling\, beloved American community” (George Saunders). \nAnthony Veasna So (1992-2020) was a graduate of Stanford University and earned his MFA in fiction at Syracuse University. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in the New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, n+1\, Granta\, and ZYZZYVA. Born and raised in Stockton\, California\, he lived in San Francisco. A native of Stockton\, California\, he taught at Colgate University\, Syracuse University\, and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland\, California. \nMira Jacob is a novelist\, memoirist\, illustrator\, and cultural critic. Her graphic memoir Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award\, and her novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing was named one of the best books of the year by Kirkus Reviews\, the Boston Globe\, Goodreads\, Bustle\, and The Millions. She lives in Brooklyn. \nMonica Sok is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press\, 2020). She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook\, Kundiman\, MacDowell\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Poetry Society of America\, and others. Sok is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Alongside Anthony Veasna So and Danny Thanh Nguyen\, she taught poetry to Southeast Asian youths at the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland\, California. \nAlex Torres studied English and Spanish literature at Stanford and UC Berkeley. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Bogotá\, Colombia\, and has worked at Business Insider and other startups. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in BuzzFeed\, The Millions\, Poets & Writers Magazine\, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance\, Hobart\, and elsewhere. Based in San Francisco\, he is currently working on a collection of essays and a collection of short stories. \nBryan Washington is a National Book Award 5 Under 35 honoree\, NBCC Award Finalist\, and winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. He received the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award for his first book\, Lot\, which was also a finalist for the NBCC’s John Leonard Prize\, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize\, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. He has written for The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The New York Times Magazine\, and BuzzFeed\, among other publications. His bestselling debut novel Memorial was a GMA Book Club pick\, a New York Times Notable pick\, one of Entertainment Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year\, and a finalist for the NBCC Fiction Prize. He lives in Houston. \n  \nBryan Washington photo by Dailey Hubbard; Monica Sok photo by Andria Lo; Mira Jacob photo by Beowulf Sheehan
URL:https://litseen.com/event/celebrating-the-publication-of-anthony-veasna-sos-afterparties-a-tribute-panel/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Offsite: Authors on the Street @ Inner Sunset Flea
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday\, August 8th at 12pm PT for the latest Authors on the Street event at Inner Sunset Flea! \nFeaturing writers Jazmin Darznik\, Michael Warr\, Emily Willingham\, Jadie Jang\, and Barbara Jane Reyes \nHosted by Charlie Jane Anders \nLocated at the San Franpsycho Stage of the Inner Sunset Flea Market \nat 9th Ave and Irving St \nAbout this Event \nAn in-person\, outdoor literary event featuring poetry\, science\, literary fiction\, fantasy and MORE! \nYES\, in-person book events are *back*! The Inner Sunset Flea has graciously allowed us to feature some authors with new and recent books. Just to be clear: this is an in-person\, outdoor reading\, with no zoom screens or webcams or headphones involved. (We love virtual events\, but we’ve missed seeing people’s faces in person.) \nOnce again\, this event is hosted by Charlie Jane Anders\, with book sales by Green Apple Books on the Park. This time around\, Authors on the Street features: \nJasmin Darznik \nMichael Warr \nEmily Willingham \nJadie Jang \nBarbara Jane Reyes \nAbout the Authors \nJasmin Darznik is the New York Times bestselling author of The Bohemians\, a novel that imagines the friendship between photographer Dorothea Lange and her Chinese American assistant in 1920s San Francisco. The novel was chosen by the New York Times and Oprah Daily as one of the best books of historical fiction in 2021. Her debut novel\, Song of a Captive Bird\, was a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” book and a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Darznik is also the author of The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life. Her books have been published in seventeen countries and she has written for the New York Times\, Washington Post\, and Los Angeles Times\, among others. She is a professor of English and creative writing at California College of the Arts. You can learn more about her at www.jasmindarznik.com. \nSan Francisco poet Michael Warr is a 2021 San Francisco Artist Grantee and 2020 Berkeley Lifetime Achievement Awardee. His books include Of Poetry & Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (W.W. Norton)\, and The Armageddon of Funk and We Are All The Black Boy from Tia Chucha Press. He is a San Francisco Library Laureate\, recipient of a Creative Work Fund award for his multimedia project Tracing Poetic Memory\, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature\, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award\, Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. His poetry is translated into Chinese by poet Chun Yu as part of the “Two Languages / One Community” project. Michael is a board member of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \nEmily Willingham is the author of Phallacy: Life Lessons From the Animal Penis. Willingham is a journalist and science writer who earned a PhD in biology and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in urology\, both after taking a bachelor’s degree in English literature. She is coauthor of The Informed Parent: A Science-Based Resource for Your Child’s First Four Years\, and her writing has appeared in the Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, Aeon\, Undark\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and many other outlets. She is a regular contributor to Scientific American. \nClaire Light (writing as Jadie Jang) is the author of Monkey Around. She started a magazine (Hyphen) and an arts festival (APAture) with a cast of Asian Pacific Americans even more magical\, if less supernatural\, than the ones she writes about. She also got an MFA\, went to Clarion West\, and compromised between the two by publishing a collection of “literary” sci-fi short stories (Slightly Behind and to the Left) that maybe 100 people read. After wrangling arts and social justice nonprofits for 17 years\, her already autoimmune-disease-addled body threw a seven-year-long tantrum\, leading our then-house-bound heroine into an urban fantasy addiction. A few years\, and a dozen Euro-centric-mythology-dominated urban fantasy series later\, Claire sat up and said “I can do this!” and Jadie Jang\, the part of her brain that writes snarky-fun genre romps\, was born. She posts about monkeys every Monday under @seelight on Twitter. \nBarbara Jane Reyes was born in 1971 in Manila\, Philippines\, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her undergraduate education at the University of California Berkeley and her MFA in creative writing (poetry) at San Francisco State University. Reyes’s poetry collections include Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Books\, 2017)\, a finalist for the California Book Award\, and Diwata (BOA Editions\, 2010). Her first book\, Gravities of Center\, was published by Arkipelago Books in 2003\, and her second book\, Poeta en San francisco (Tinfish Press\, 2005) received the 2005 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. She has taught at Mills College and the University of San Francisco. She is an adjunct professor in the Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program at University of San Francisco. She lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/offsite-authors-on-the-street-inner-sunset-flea/
LOCATION:Inner Sunset Flea Market\, 800 Irving Street\, San Francisco\, 94122
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:San Jose Poetry Slam Zoom Slam feat Deonte Osayande!
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Center San Jose presents The San Jose Poetry Slam Zoom Edition featuring Deonte Osayande\nCome join us for Poetry from the comfort of your own home.\nSunday August 8\nRoom opens at 6:30 pm (California time)\nSign up list will be open from 6:30 to 7pm\nSlam starts at 7\nWe are on Pacific Standard time\, that is 3 hours earlier than east coast time and 3 hours ahead of Hawaii.\nThis is a free event.\nHosted by Scorpiana Xlent\nCash prizes for 1st\, 2nd\, and 3rd place.\nRegister through Eventbrite:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/san-jose-poetry-slam-zoom…\nIf you have never been to a Poetry Slam before\, a poetry slam is a competition\, imagine spoken word poetry as an olympic sport. The rules are simple:1) Poets must use their own poems. 2) poet must use only one poem per round. 3) no musical accompianment. 4)no props. 5) there is a time limit of 3 minutes and 10 seconds. going over that will result in a time penalty.\nThis is a two round slam\, poets with the highest scores will move up to round two.\nYou can sign up to compete via the chatbox in the zoom room.\nIf you’re not competing\, we could use judges.\nOur feature will be Deonte Osayande!\nDeonte Osayande is a writer from Detroit\, Mi. His nonfiction and poetry have been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology\, the Pushcart Prize and he’s had a book nominated for a Digital Book Award. He has represented Detroit at four National Poetry Slam competitions. He’s currently a professor of English at Wayne County Community College. His books include Class (Urban Farmhouse Press\, 2017)\, Circus (Brick Mantle Books\, 2018) and Civilian (Urban Farmhouse Press\, 2019). He also managed the Rustbelt Midwest Regional Poetry Slam and Festival for 2014 and 2018.\n\nTo order a copy of Deonte’s newest chapbook “Recipe For The Poet” https://www.finishinglinepress.com/…/recipe-for-the…/…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-jose-poetry-slam-zoom-slam-feat-deonte-osayande/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Reimagine Candlelight Vigil with Author Armistead Maupin
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, August 9 \n12:00pm-1:30pm PDT \n\nAt this month’s Reimagine Candlelight Vigil\, our special guest is “Tales of the City” author Armistead Maupin. Let’s honor our loved ones and celebrate the transformation of loss into creativity.\nReimagine has been hosting candlelight vigils throughout the pandemic in order to break down taboos and hold space for all that we’ve lost. At this special gathering\, “Tales of the City” author Armistead Maupin will discuss living through two pandemics (AIDS in the 1980s and COVID-19 today)\, LGBTQ+ aging\, legacy\, and the power of writing and creativity. Our additional guest is Wilfred Labiosa\, the CEO of Waves Ahead Corp\, a non-profit organization in Puerto Rico focusing on the elder and LGBT+ community. \nArmistead Maupin \nLaunched in 1976 as a groundbreaking serial in the San Francisco Chronicle\, Armistead Maupin’s iconic Tales of the City series has since blazed its own trail through popular culture – from a sequence of globally best-selling novels\, to a Peabody Award-winning television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney\, to an ambitious new musical that had its world premiere at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater in 2011. The series now encompasses nine hugely popular novels: Tales of the City\, More Tales of the City\, Further Tales of the City\, Babycakes\, Significant Others\, Sure of You\, Michael Tolliver Lives\, and Mary Ann in Autumn. The final Tales novel\, The Days of Anna Madrigal\, was released in January 2014. It premiered at #3 on the Independent Bestseller list and #7 on the New York Times Bestseller list. In 2019 Netflix will be airing a new series based on the novels titled Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City. \nMaupin’s 1992 novel\, Maybe the Moon\, which followed the serio-comic adventures of a dwarf actress working in Hollywood\, was named one of the ten best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly. The Night Listener (2000)\, a psychological suspense novel inspired by an eerie episode in Maupin’s own life\, became a 2006 feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. In 2017 he wrote a memoir titled Logical Family which grew out of his critically acclaimed one-man show of the same name. Neil Gaiman said this about Logical Family; “Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers\, and the story of his life is a story as fascinating\, as delightful and as compulsive as any of the tales he has made up for us.” \nIn 1997 Maupin received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle of New York. In 2002 he was honored with the Trevor Project’s Life Award “for his efforts in saving young lives.” Maupin was the first recipient of Litquake’s Barbary Coast Award for his literary contribution to San Francisco. In 2012 he was awarded Lambda’s Pioneer Award which is bestowed on individuals who have broken new ground in the field of LGBT literature and publishing. In 2014 he received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He also received the Visionary Award from the 2014 Outfest Legacy Awards for his collected novels and their “…diverse\, interconnected community of San Francisco bohemians — which shaped our collective fantasy of what LGBT life is and could be….” Maupin is the subject of a new documentary titled Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin. He lives in London with his husband Christopher Turner\, a photographer. \nWilfred Labiosa \nWilfred Labiosa\, PhD\, (he/him/él) has been a community leader for more than thirty years. He has been working in the public health field for more than 25 years with marginalized communities such as the Latino and LGBT communities in the United States and Puerto Rico. He has published extensively his research with the dually-diagnosed Latino community\, mental health and a substance abuse diagnosis; works as a consultant and/ or supervisor on state\, national and international projects that focus on mental health\, HIV/AIDS prevention\, homeless\, youth\, Latinos\, LGBTQ+\, people with dual diagnosis or evidence-based treatment modalities. He has worked with LGBT and HIV organizations locally\, nationally and internationally for many years\, as a mentor\, mental health provider or evaluator. Born and raised in Puerto Rico; He graduated with a doctorate degree from Simmons University\, School of Social Work\, and Master’s Degree from Northeastern University’s Department of Counseling Psychology\, and a graduate certificate from Suffolk University’s management of non-profits. His Bachelor’s degree is from Boston University. He is currently the CEO of Waves Ahead Corp\, a non-profit organization in Puerto Rico focusing on the elder and LGBT+ community. \nSAGE \nSAGE is the country’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBT older people. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in New York City\, SAGE is a national organization that offers supportive services and consumer resources to LGBT older people and their caregivers. \nTYPE:\nRITUAL & CEREMONYTALK\, PANEL\, & CONVERSATIONWRITING & LITERATURECOMMUNITY GATHERINGCELEBRATION & REMEMBRANCE\nTRACK:\nARTS & ENTERTAINMENTCOVID-19 \n\nThis is a digital event. You should receive information in your ticket or from the host about how to join online. \n\nFree\nRSVP
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reimagine-candlelight-vigil-with-author-armistead-maupin/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Claire Luchette and Helen Ellis
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, August 9th at 6pm PT when Claire Luchette joins us to discuss her debut novel\, Agatha of Little Neon\, with Helen Ellis on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_a1ZP3ZfGTBO12osWiJnR7Q \nPraise for Agatha of Little Neon \n“Full of small devotions\, pith and vigor\, and a bounty of tender feeling for a world that is not quite as full of grace as it could be\, this bold debut shines with a light all its own.” —Alexandra Kleeman \n“Claire Luchette is so wildly talented that I would follow her anywhere . . . A novel that’s blazingly original\, wry\, and perfectly attuned to the oddness—and the profundity—of life.” —Cristina Henriquez \nAbout Agatha of Little Neon \nClaire Luchette’s debut\, Agatha of Little Neon\, is a novel about yearning and sisterhood\, figuring out how you fit in (or don’t)\, and the unexpected friends who help you find your truest self. \nAgatha has lived every day of the last nine years with her sisters: they work together\, laugh together\, pray together. Their world is contained within the little house they share. The four of them are devoted to Mother Roberta and to their quiet\, purposeful life. \nBut when the parish goes broke\, the sisters are forced to move. They land in Woonsocket\, a former mill town now dotted with wind turbines. They take over the care of a halfway house\, where they live alongside their charges\, such as the jawless Tim Gary and the headstrong Lawnmower Jill. Agatha is forced to venture out into the world alone to teach math at a local all-girls high school\, where for the first time in years she has to reckon all on her own with what she sees and feels. Who will she be if she isn’t with her sisters? These women\, the church\, have been her home. Or has she just been hiding? \nDisarming\, delightfully deadpan\, and full of searching\, Claire Luchette’s Agatha of Little Neon offers a view into the lives of women and the choices they make. It is a novel about sisterhood\, friendship\, and devotion\, about figuring out how we fit in (or don’t)\, and about the unexpected friends who help us find our truest selves. \nAbout Claire Luchette \nClaire Luchette has published work in the Virginia Quarterly Review\, the Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, and Granta. A 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow\, Luchette graduated from the University of Oregon MFA program and has received grants and scholarships from MacDowell\, Yaddo\, the Millay Colony for the Arts\, Lighthouse Works\, the Elizabeth George Foundation\, and the James Merrill House. Agatha of Little Neon is Luchette’s first novel. \nAbout Helen Ellis \nHelen Ellis is the author of Bring Your Baggage and Don’t Pack Light\,Southern Lady Code\, American Housewife and Eating the Cheshire Cat. Raised in Alabama\, she lives with her husband in New York City. You can find her on Twitter @WhatIDoAllDay and Instagram @HelenEllisAuthor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-claire-luchette-and-helen-ellis/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays Reading "Poetry & Poetic Prose"
DESCRIPTION:August 9 at 7pm Pacific\, the Odd Mondays reading series brings you an hour of poetry and poetic prose on Zoom. Paul Corman-Roberts reads from his new poetry collection BONE MOON PALACE\, Penny Mickelbury from her historical novel TWO WINGS TO FLY AWAY\, and Tamsin Spencer Smith from her political thriller XISLE. Get the Zoom link from oddmondaysnoevalley@gmail.com. Buy all three books at www.foliosf.com/odd-mondays.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-reading-poetry-poetic-prose/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jessamyn Stanley\, Yoke
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bestselling author and staff favorite Jessamyn Stanley (Every Body Yoga) will join us online to discuss her new book\, Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance\, available to order below. Stanley will be in conversation with the amazing Nicole Steward of Love Ethic Yoga. \n“Beloved body-positive yogi Jessamyn Stanley speaks on the everyday trials of self-love and spiritual upkeep in Yoke\, her follow-up to Every Body Yoga\, which gained her a huge Internet following of those who resonate with her wellness-based practice. In this collection of uplifting\, honest\, wise\, and often funny essays\, Stanley navigates the spiritual\, sexual\, and racial intersections of her yoga-filled life.” —Juj\, Bookshop bookseller \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here! \nFinding self-acceptance both on and off the mat. \nIn Sanskrit\, yoga means to “yoke.” To yoke mind and body\, movement and breath\, light and dark\, the good and the bad. This larger idea of “yoke” is what Jessamyn Stanley calls the yoga of the everyday–a yoga that is not just about perfecting your downward dog but about applying the hard lessons learned on the mat to the even harder daily project of living. \nIn a series of deeply honest\, funny autobiographical essays\, Jessamyn explores everything from imposter syndrome to cannabis to why it’s a full-time job loving yourself\, all through the lens of yoke. She calls out an American yoga complex that prefers debating the merits of cotton versus polyblend leggings rather than owning up to its overwhelming Whiteness. She questions why the Western take on yoga so often misses–or misuses–the tradition’s spiritual dimension. And reveals what she calls her own “whole-ass problematic” Growing up Baháí\, loving astrology\, learning to meditate\, finding prana in music. \nAnd in the end\, Jessamyn invites every reader to find the authentic spirit of yoke–linking that good and that bad\, that light and that dark. \nJessamyn Stanley is the author of Every Body Yoga and Yoke and an internationally acclaimed voice in wellness\, highly sought after for her insights on 21st-century yoga and intersectional identity. She is the founder of The Underbelly\, an inclusive wellness community and streaming app\, cohost of the podcast Dear Jessamyn\, and cofounder of We Go High\, a North Carolina based cannabis justice initiative. She is a regular contributor to SELF magazine and has been featured in the New York Times\, Vogue\, and Sports Illustrated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessamyn-stanley-yoke/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nAmerican Estrangement \npublished by W.W. Norton \nOne of Literary Hub‘s Most Anticipated Books of 2021 \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Link coming soon! \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link coming soon! \n———– \nSaïd Sayrafiezadeh has been hailed by Philip Gourevitch as “a masterful storyteller working from deep in the American grain.” His new collection of stories—some of which have appeared in The New Yorker\, the Paris Review\, and the Best American Short Stories—is set in a contemporary America full of the kind of emotionally bruised characters familiar to readers of Denis Johnson and George Saunders. These are people contending with internal struggles—a son’s fractured relationship with his father\, the death of a mother\, the loss of a job\, drug addiction—even as they are battered by larger\, often invisible\, economic\, political\, and racial forces of American society. \nSearing\, intimate\, often slyly funny\, and always marked by a deep imaginative sympathy\, American Estrangement is a testament to our addled times. It will cement Sayrafiezadeh’s reputation as one of the essential twenty-first-century American writers. \n\n\nSaïd Sayrafiezadeh was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. He is the author of a memoir\, When Skateboards Will Be Free\, and a story collection\, Brief Encounters with the Enemy. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award and a Cullman Center Fellowship. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, the Paris Review\, Granta\, the New York Times Magazine\, and McSweeney’s. He teaches at New York University and Hunter College and lives in New York City. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.sayrafiezadeh.com \n  \nWhat has been said about the work of Saïd Sayrafiezadeh \n\n\n\n\n\nSaïd Sayrafiezadeh is a first-rate short story writer. Every sentence is a delight\, and his work has a captivating\, immersive quality that leaves the reader shaken and moved. American Estrangement is a superb book with a strange and subtle power sure to haunt readers long after they’ve closed the cover. \nPhil Klay\, author of Missionaries \nSad\, mordant\, and utterly beguiling\, this pitch-perfect volume of stories broke my heart. American Estrangement’s characters are endlessly unsettled: stalked by unresolved pasts\, trapped in the unbridgeable gulfs of the present moment. Saïd Sayrafiezadeh works like a miniaturist\, impeccably tracing invisible negotiations between human beings—and these stories accumulate with a disquieting\, invisible power. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Adjmi\, author of Lot Six \nA haunting book\, and filled with longing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHilton Als\, author of White Girls \nThe stories in this moving and powerful collection are honest\, unaffected\, yet full of imagination. Whether set in the recent past or a speculative near future\, they explore moments where personal and societal dysfunction converge\, in prose that punches through the page. This book’s tough poetry tells us who we are and where we are headed\, with equal parts sadness\, humor\, and hope. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRajesh Parameswaran\, author of I Am an Executioner \nThese stories combine the intensity of theater\, the humor of your smartest friend\, and the emotional insight of the imaginary and gentle god you might wish for and fear as a witness. Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is an extraordinary talent\, and these stories merit reading and rereading and rereading. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRivka Galchen\, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch \nSayrafiezadeh\, entertaining and political without being heavy-handed\, is a force to be reckoned with. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooklist
URL:https://litseen.com/event/said-sayrafiezadeh/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Jessamyn Stanley\, Yoke
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bestselling author and staff favorite Jessamyn Stanley (Every Body Yoga) will join us online to discuss her new book\, Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance. \nRegistration for this free Crowdcast event will begin soon. \nFinding self-acceptance both on and off the mat. \nIn Sanskrit\, yoga means to “yoke.” To yoke mind and body\, movement and breath\, light and dark\, the good and the bad. This larger idea of “yoke” is what Jessamyn Stanley calls the yoga of the everyday–a yoga that is not just about perfecting your downward dog but about applying the hard lessons learned on the mat to the even harder daily project of living. \nIn a series of deeply honest\, funny autobiographical essays\, Jessamyn explores everything from imposter syndrome to cannabis to why it’s a full-time job loving yourself\, all through the lens of yoke. She calls out an American yoga complex that prefers debating the merits of cotton versus polyblend leggings rather than owning up to its overwhelming Whiteness. She questions why the Western take on yoga so often misses–or misuses–the tradition’s spiritual dimension. And reveals what she calls her own “whole-ass problematic” Growing up Baháí\, loving astrology\, learning to meditate\, finding prana in music. \nAnd in the end\, Jessamyn invites every reader to find the authentic spirit of yoke–linking that good and that bad\, that light and that dark. \nJessamyn Stanley is the author of Every Body Yoga and Yoke and an internationally acclaimed voice in wellness\, highly sought after for her insights on 21st-century yoga and intersectional identity. She is the founder of The Underbelly\, an inclusive wellness community and streaming app\, cohost of the podcast Dear Jessamyn\, and cofounder of We Go High\, a North Carolina based cannabis justice initiative. She is a regular contributor to SELF magazine and has been featured in the New York Times\, Vogue\, and Sports Illustrated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jessamyn-stanley-yoke/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Tao Lin with Tommy Orange / Leave Society
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Tao Lin again for his new novel\, Leave Society. He’ll be in conversation with Tommy Orange. Join us! \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Leave Society here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nIn 2014\, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to visit his parents in Taipei for ten weeks. He doesn’t know it yet\, but his life will begin to deepen and complexify on this trip. As he flies between these two worlds–year by year\, over four years–he will flit in and out of optimism\, despair\, loneliness\, sanity\, bouts of chronic pain\, and drafts of a new book. He will incite and temper arguments\, uncover secrets about nature and history\, and try to understand how to live a meaningful life as an artist and a son. But how to fit these pieces of his life together? Where to begin? Or should he leave society altogether? \nExploring everyday events and scenes–waiting rooms\, dog walks\, family meals–while investigatively venturing to the edges of society\, where culture dissolves into mystery\, Lin shows what it is to write a novel in real time. Illuminating and deeply felt\, as it builds toward a stunning\, if unexpected\, romance\, Leave Society is a masterly story about life and art at the end of history. \nAbout the authors\nTao Lin is the author of the memoir Trip\, the novels Taipei and Richard Yates and Eeeee Eee Eeee\, the novella Shoplifting from American Apparel\, the story collection Bed\, and the poetry collections Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and you are a little bit happier than i am. He was born in Virginia\, has taught in Sarah Lawrence College’s MFA program\, and is the founder and editor of Muumuu House. \nTommy Orange is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma\, he was born and raised in Oakland\, California. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tao-lin-with-tommy-orange-leave-society/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Katherine E. Standefer\, Kate Washington & Naomi Williams
DESCRIPTION:Katherine E. Standefer and Kate Washington discuss their new books on healthcare with Naomi Williams\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, August 10\, 2021 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\nCA\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKatherine E. Standefer and Kate Washington discuss their new books\, Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life (Little\, Brown Spark) and Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America (Beacon Press) with Naomi Williams. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Already Toast\nThe story of one woman’s struggle to care for her seriously ill husband—and a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fails to provide them with structural support. \nAlready Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be\, how difficult it is to find support\, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles. When Kate Washington and her husband\, Brad\, learned that he had cancer\, they were a young couple: professionals with ascending careers\, parents to two small children. Brad’s diagnosis stripped those identities away: he became a patient and she his caregiver. \nBrad’s cancer quickly turned aggressive\, necessitating a stem-cell transplant that triggered a massive infection\, robbing him of his eyesight and nearly of his life. Kate acted as his full-time aide to keep him alive\, coordinating his treatments\, making doctors’ appointments\, calling insurance companies\, filling dozens of prescriptions\, cleaning commodes\, administering IV drugs. She became so burned out that\, when she took an online quiz on caregiver self-care\, her result cheerily declared: “You’re already toast!” \nThrough it all\, she felt profoundly alone\, but\, as she later learned\, she was in fact one of millions: an invisible army of family caregivers working every day in America\, their unpaid labor keeping our troubled healthcare system afloat. Because our culture both romanticizes and erases the realities of care work\, few caregivers have shared their stories publicly. \nAs the baby-boom generation ages\, the number of family caregivers will continue to grow. Readable\, relatable\, timely\, and often raw\, Already Toast—with its clear call for paying and supporting family caregivers—is a crucial intervention in that conversation\, bringing together personal experience with deep research to give voice to those tasked with the overlooked\, vital work of caring for the seriously ill. \nAbout Lightning Flowers\nLightning Flowers weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author’s life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such innovation possible — “utterly spectacular.” (Rachel Louise Snyder\, author of No Visible Bruises) \nWhat if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That’s the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. \nIn this gripping\, intimate memoir about health\, illness\, and the invisible reverberating effects of our medical system\, Standefer recounts the astonishing true story of the rare diagnosis that upended her rugged life in the mountains of Wyoming and sent her tumbling into a fraught maze of cardiology units\, dramatic surgeries\, and slow\, painful recoveries. As her life increasingly comes to revolve around the internal defibrillator freshly wired into her heart\, she becomes consumed with questions about the supply chain that allows such an ostensibly miraculous device to exist. So she sets out to trace its materials back to their roots. \nFrom the sterile labs of a medical device manufacturer in southern California to the tantalum and tin mines seized by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to a nickel and cobalt mine carved out of endemic Madagascar jungle\, Lightning Flowers takes us on a global reckoning with the social and environmental costs of a technology that promises to be lifesaving but is\, in fact\, much more complicated. \nDeeply personal and sharply reported\, Lightning Flowers takes a hard look at technological mythos\, healthcare\, and our cultural relationship to medical technology\, raising important questions about our obligations to one another\, and the cost of saving one life. \nAbout the Authors\nKate Washington is the author of Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout In America and the dining critic for The Sacramento Bee. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, TIME\, Eater\, Catapult\, and many other publications. She holds a Ph.D. in Victorian literature from Stanford University and lives in Sacramento with her husband and two daughters. \nKatherine E. Standefer’s debut book Lightning Flowers was shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. Her writing appeared in Best American Essays 2016. In 2018\, Standefer was a Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good. She earned her MFA in Nonfiction at the University of Arizona and teaches for Ashland University’s Low-Residency MFA. She writes from a juniper-studded mesa in New Mexico\, where she lives with her chickens. \nNaomi J. Williams is the author of Landfalls (FSG 2015)\, long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in numerous publications\, including A Public Space\, LitHub\, One Story\, and Zoetrope: All-Story. Her distinctions include a Pushcart Prize\, Best American Short Stories Honorable Mention\, Sustainable Arts Foundation grant\, and residencies at Hedgebrook\, Djerassi\, and Willapa Bay AiR. Born and partly raised in Japan\, Naomi currently lives in Sacramento\, California\, and teaches with the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University in Ohio. Find her on Twitter at @naomiwilliams or at her website at naomijwilliams.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katherine-e-standefer-kate-washington-naomi-williams-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jeremy Lent & Joanna Manqueros: The Web of Meaning
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents\nJeremy Lent & Joanna Manqueros \nThe Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe \nRethinking values based on science and traditional wisdom Indigenous\, Buddhist\, and Taoist traditions have held for millennia that all life is interconnected. Modern science has now validated their insight. What does this mean for how we should live?  This groundbreaking new book weaves together the latest scientific findings and age-old philosophical insights to show how some of our most ingrained beliefs about human nature and the world are mistaken-and offers a powerful alternative to help us heal a planet in peril. \nTHE WEB OF MEANING isn’t just a challenge to outmoded beliefs. It is an invitation to a new worldview that integrates insights from some of the world’s great wisdom traditions with modern science to offer a new way of thinking about ourselves and the world that is both intellectually sound and spiritually vibrant. In this far-reaching and boundary-defying book\, Lent\, described by Guardian columnist George Monbiot as “one of the greatest thinkers of our age\,” weaves together the latest research in neuroscience and evolutionary biology with Buddhist\, Taoist\, and Indigenous wisdom\, and shows how these seemingly disparate streams of thought are eminently compatible. He argues that\, taken together\, they are key to facing the existential problems of the 21st century and can lead to a flourishing future for all. \nJeremy Lent wrote The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning. \nJoanna Manqueros hosts every Tuesday on KPFA at 11 AM\,  a celebration of the global music which heals and revives us. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/jeremy-lent-joanna-manqueros-the-web-of-meaning-tickets-159477650947
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeremy-lent-joanna-manqueros-the-web-of-meaning/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Katherine E. Standefer\, Kate Washington & Naomi Williams
DESCRIPTION:Katherine E. Standefer and Kate Washington discuss their new books\, Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life (Little\, Brown Spark) and Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America (Beacon Press) with Naomi Williams. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Already Toast\nThe story of one woman’s struggle to care for her seriously ill husband—and a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fails to provide them with structural support. \nAlready Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be\, how difficult it is to find support\, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles. When Kate Washington and her husband\, Brad\, learned that he had cancer\, they were a young couple: professionals with ascending careers\, parents to two small children. Brad’s diagnosis stripped those identities away: he became a patient and she his caregiver. \nBrad’s cancer quickly turned aggressive\, necessitating a stem-cell transplant that triggered a massive infection\, robbing him of his eyesight and nearly of his life. Kate acted as his full-time aide to keep him alive\, coordinating his treatments\, making doctors’ appointments\, calling insurance companies\, filling dozens of prescriptions\, cleaning commodes\, administering IV drugs. She became so burned out that\, when she took an online quiz on caregiver self-care\, her result cheerily declared: “You’re already toast!” \nThrough it all\, she felt profoundly alone\, but\, as she later learned\, she was in fact one of millions: an invisible army of family caregivers working every day in America\, their unpaid labor keeping our troubled healthcare system afloat. Because our culture both romanticizes and erases the realities of care work\, few caregivers have shared their stories publicly. \nAs the baby-boom generation ages\, the number of family caregivers will continue to grow. Readable\, relatable\, timely\, and often raw\, Already Toast—with its clear call for paying and supporting family caregivers—is a crucial intervention in that conversation\, bringing together personal experience with deep research to give voice to those tasked with the overlooked\, vital work of caring for the seriously ill. \nAbout Lightning Flowers\nLightning Flowers weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author’s life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such innovation possible — “utterly spectacular.” (Rachel Louise Snyder\, author of No Visible Bruises) \nWhat if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That’s the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. \nIn this gripping\, intimate memoir about health\, illness\, and the invisible reverberating effects of our medical system\, Standefer recounts the astonishing true story of the rare diagnosis that upended her rugged life in the mountains of Wyoming and sent her tumbling into a fraught maze of cardiology units\, dramatic surgeries\, and slow\, painful recoveries. As her life increasingly comes to revolve around the internal defibrillator freshly wired into her heart\, she becomes consumed with questions about the supply chain that allows such an ostensibly miraculous device to exist. So she sets out to trace its materials back to their roots. \nFrom the sterile labs of a medical device manufacturer in southern California to the tantalum and tin mines seized by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to a nickel and cobalt mine carved out of endemic Madagascar jungle\, Lightning Flowers takes us on a global reckoning with the social and environmental costs of a technology that promises to be lifesaving but is\, in fact\, much more complicated. \nDeeply personal and sharply reported\, Lightning Flowers takes a hard look at technological mythos\, healthcare\, and our cultural relationship to medical technology\, raising important questions about our obligations to one another\, and the cost of saving one life. \nAbout the Authors\nKate Washington is the author of Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout In America and the dining critic for The Sacramento Bee. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, TIME\, Eater\, Catapult\, and many other publications. She holds a Ph.D. in Victorian literature from Stanford University and lives in Sacramento with her husband and two daughters. \nKatherine E. Standefer’s debut book Lightning Flowers was shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. Her writing appeared in Best American Essays 2016. In 2018\, Standefer was a Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good. She earned her MFA in Nonfiction at the University of Arizona and teaches for Ashland University’s Low-Residency MFA. She writes from a juniper-studded mesa in New Mexico\, where she lives with her chickens. \nNaomi J. Williams is the author of Landfalls (FSG 2015)\, long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in numerous publications\, including A Public Space\, LitHub\, One Story\, and Zoetrope: All-Story. Her distinctions include a Pushcart Prize\, Best American Short Stories Honorable Mention\, Sustainable Arts Foundation grant\, and residencies at Hedgebrook\, Djerassi\, and Willapa Bay AiR. Born and partly raised in Japan\, Naomi currently lives in Sacramento\, California\, and teaches with the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University in Ohio. Find her on Twitter at @naomiwilliams or at her website at naomijwilliams.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katherine-e-standefer-kate-washington-naomi-williams/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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